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December 11, 2013

Conspire Chooses Typesafe for Email Analytics

Conspire is a robust tool for analyzing email data that gives users detailed analytics about their email network so they can better understand the strengths of their connections. To build a solid foundation for their customer-facing product, they turned to Akka and Scala for scalability, resiliency and simplicity.

Building a production-ready social networking backend in three months with three developers is a daunting task. Learn how the Conspire team did just that with the Typesafe Reactive Platform in our newest case study.

From the blog

While Reactive application development is off to a roaring start and becoming mainstream, this leads to demands on Operations that are simply not met by yesterday’s software architectures and technologies. The pressure facing enterprises to manage resilient, responsive systems is brutal, yet most existing technologies available today are not designed to deploy and manage Reactive systems running on clusters. It’s due to this fact that Operations face a higher risk of downtime by using inappropriate tools/practices at a time when being unavailable is more costly than ever. So why is this happening? Well, it's not 2005 anymore–and why that's a problem for Operations is explained here...

Ten months ago we posted about architectural changes to Typesafe Activator. After a few a lot of yak shaves, side projects, and detours, we have Activator 1.3.0 based on sbt server, a new setup where multiple clients can share the same instance of sbt. sbt server is also available in ABI-stable protocol-stable form for other clients (IDEs, command line, desktop status icon, whatever you can think of) to try out.